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tain therefore refolved to proceed to the 
' lower end of the Gulph, where, according 
to the information of a Greek pilot on 
board, plenty of provifions and freth water 
might be procured. The veffel reached 
the-place pointed out by the pilot in the 
middle of the night; and as foon as day 
began to appear, Jumelin haftened upon 
deck to fee if any thing prefented itfelf 
worthy of obfervation. He perceived, to 
the fouth,a port fheltered by a {mall ifland ; 
to the ways achain of mountains, of which 
the cape formed the fummit,; and to the 
north, in front of the veffel, ara Jittle di-. 
ftance, a fandy fhore, which promifed a 
fafe and good, mooring. On this ftrand, 
_ not far from the fea, was a building of a 
confiderable fize, but of an uncouth form; 
and beyond it a hill, covered from the top 
to the bottom with {mall and mean houfes. 
In a plain, a little concealed by the hill, he 
was furprifed to perceive a vaft extent of 
ruins, which feemed to announce, that for- 
merly the place had been the feat of a large 
and powerful city. 
«¢ This difcovery,”’ fays Jumelin, ¢* ap- 
peared to me to be more curious and inter- 
efting, as no traveller, that I know, has 
fpoken of thefe ruins ; and ae the Lacedz- 
monians had not the reputation of being 
{umptuous in their edifices, and even not 
a veltige of Sparta remains.” 
«¢ The building neareft to the fea ferved 
for an habitation for the principal ae 
in -the diftri@, the other inhabitants of 
which cccupied the hill. ‘Thefe people 
were tractable and humane, having no re- 
femblance to the inhabitants of the cape, 
although they have frequent intercourfe 
with them. They furnifhed us with fheep 
and other provifions. ‘Their chief came 
to pay us a vifit; but the captain, who 
was a man of brutal manners, would not 
Suffer him to come on board, and even re- 
fuled him a rope he begged to have to 
faften his boat to the fhore.”’ 
<¢T afked thefe people the name of the city 
whofe ruins [ béheld, but I received no {a- 
tisfactory an{wer,. They called it Paleopolis, 
’ which fignifies ¢ ancient town,’ andis a ge- 
neral name given by the Greeks to the ae: 
veral ruins of their cox untry. I was eager 
to land’ to examine the ruins. I Aattered 
myfelf with findine infcriptions, remains 
of temples, amphitheatres, and other pub- 
lic buildings ; and had’ even prepared to 
make fketches of whatever might appear 
interefting ; but the refentment ‘af the chief 
* of the diltrigt, excited by the condu& of 
our captain, fhewed‘itfelf in prohibi iting my. 
. Janding. Re 
' Jumelin thus prevented, to his infinite 
Lacedamenian Maratime Arfenal. 
~ pediment. 
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regret, from  clofely infpecting objeéts 
which at a diftance fo greatly excited his 
curiofity, fixed his eyes attentively on the 
plain. He could perceive heaps of broken 
materials, but he could not diftinguifh 
their forms. On the fhore, were many 
remains of buildings ftill {tanding; and, 
among the reft, ihe remains of a portico, 
compofed of columns, which fupported a 
The waves of the fea almoft- 
reached thefe columns ; but Jumelin fuppof- 
ed-they had not ftood fo’ near the fea when 
they were firt raifed. This conjecture 
was foon changed mto certainty ; for he 
perceived that ‘the fea had made inroads 
in that quarter, and actually covered walls 
partially overthrown ; and ruins of build- 
ings, whofe broken points, in fome places, 
projected above the waves, clearly indi- 
cating that a city had been buried, by 
fome accident, beneath the*fea. 
- Jumelin neglected nothing that could be 
done in his fituation toward elucidatihg 
this difcovery. Having obferved every 
thing with attention that could be feeu 
front’ the veffel, he had recourfe to” his 
-books. Paufanias informed him, that the 
_place he faw was the remains of the Port 
of Githium. The defcription given by 
Paufanias of that port; its fituation; 
the {mall river which flows near it; the 
Ifland of Cranais (the {cene of the triumph 
of Paris over Helen) were fo many proofs 
to Jumelin that he had difcovered the ruins 
of a city that was the Maritime Arfenal 
of the Lacedzemonians. “T’o judge of it by 
what he perceived, he was convinced that 
if was not without teafon that Livy had 
faid fo much of ‘it, in deferibing the frege 
of the place by the brother of the procon- 
fal, Quintius Flaminius. 
The French veffel, being furnifhed with 
water and provifions, weighed anchor on 
the s5thof June, and encountered another 
ftorm while fhe endeavoured to double the 
cape, which was nearly fatal to: her, and- 
compelled her to take refuge at the Ifland 
of Cytherea. Jumelin fays, that this ifland, 
_ although for the moft part barren and un- 
cultivated, has, notwithftanding, fome de- 
lightful valleys, where there are groves of 
myrtles, with alleys leading to folitary rece? 
fes. It is to befulpeéted, from thefe places, 
that the inbabitints have not altogether 
renounced the ancient worfhip of the god- 
defs of the ifland, who feems indeed never 
to have had magnificent temples of ftone 
in this place, as no remains of ancient 
buildings are to be found in the whole 
ifland. A Greek, who was. Jumelin’s 
guide, pointed out to him, i in the walls of 
a church, fome fragments of old columns, 
which 

